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"sebyte" <sdt133@netscape.net> wrote in message
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>
> However, one Sebastian Kremer wrote a
> package called 'auto-save' in 1992 that does exactly what you want it to
do.
> You can find it at;
>
> ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/emacs-lisp/old-archive/auto-save.elZ
>
> It's easy to install and, as far as I can tell, works perfectly.  (All
those
> annoying #...# files in one directory).  Good luck.  Let us know how you
get on.

thanks, i'll certainly look into that.

first research says, that the original version is 1.19 from 1992, but there
is a Xemacs adapotion, with version num 1.25.

cheers, leo